“Black Adam” filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra has been hired by Amazon MGM Studios to direct a movie starring Emily Blunt as pioneering female detective Kate Warne.
Melissa Stack wrote the screenplay from a previous draft by Gustin Nash. The untitled film, described as a “propulsive action thriller,” centers around a real-life Sherlock Holmes-esque character. Kate Warne was the first female detective at the Pinkerton agency and, according to a release, paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Blunt, who will also produce the movie, hasn’t finalized her deal because of the actors strike, but conversations are expected to resume once the guild has a new pact.
Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia and Dany Garcia are producing via their company, Seven Bucks Productions. Kristina Sorensen is producing for With a K Productions. Kimberly Bialek will oversee for Seven Bucks Productions.
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Melissa Stack wrote the screenplay from a previous draft by Gustin Nash. The untitled film, described as a “propulsive action thriller,” centers around a real-life Sherlock Holmes-esque character. Kate Warne was the first female detective at the Pinkerton agency and, according to a release, paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Blunt, who will also produce the movie, hasn’t finalized her deal because of the actors strike, but conversations are expected to resume once the guild has a new pact.
Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia and Dany Garcia are producing via their company, Seven Bucks Productions. Kristina Sorensen is producing for With a K Productions. Kimberly Bialek will oversee for Seven Bucks Productions.
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- 10/19/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Jaume Collet-Serra is back in business with Seven Bucks after Black Adam and Jungle Cruise, with the filmmaker set to direct Kate Warne for Amazon MGM and Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks. Emily Blunt is also producing, but with an eye to star. There is currently no acting deal in place, Deadline hears. Those conversations are expected to resume post-strike.
Deadline first told you about the project with Blunt’s circling.
Collet-Serra is directing from script by Melissa Stack. Gustin Nash penned the first draft which is an action thriller built around Warne, a real-life Sherlock Holmes. She was the first female detective at the Pinkerton Agency and paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Stack co-wrote Godmothered for Disney with Kari Granlund. Stack also penned The Other Woman for 20th Century Fox. She also wrote and is attached...
Deadline first told you about the project with Blunt’s circling.
Collet-Serra is directing from script by Melissa Stack. Gustin Nash penned the first draft which is an action thriller built around Warne, a real-life Sherlock Holmes. She was the first female detective at the Pinkerton Agency and paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Stack co-wrote Godmothered for Disney with Kari Granlund. Stack also penned The Other Woman for 20th Century Fox. She also wrote and is attached...
- 10/19/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Queen of the South co-producer and Queen Sugar producer Tina Mabry has signed on to direct and co-write Pretty Big at Warner Bros. and HBO Max, a project which Mike Jackson of Get Lifted Film Co., Poppy Hanks and Jelani Johnson of Macro and Kristina Sorensen will produce.
Pretty Big is based on the true life story of Akira Armstrong and the origin of her Pretty Big Movement dance company. In the movie, a young plus-sized woman takes matters into her own hands when she keeps getting rejected from dance companies, despite her obvious talent. When she starts her own company for bodies of all shapes, sizes, and colors, she sets out to win a prestigious competition and prove to the dance community that anyone can dance at an elite level. This was a competitive package bid on by several studios. Dan Steele is co-writing.
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Pretty Big is based on the true life story of Akira Armstrong and the origin of her Pretty Big Movement dance company. In the movie, a young plus-sized woman takes matters into her own hands when she keeps getting rejected from dance companies, despite her obvious talent. When she starts her own company for bodies of all shapes, sizes, and colors, she sets out to win a prestigious competition and prove to the dance community that anyone can dance at an elite level. This was a competitive package bid on by several studios. Dan Steele is co-writing.
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- 1/19/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Akira Armstrong’s Pretty Big Movement dance company set out to destroy stereotypes in the dance world — and now that story is getting the Hollywood treatment in a new film.
Set at Warner Bros. for HBO Max, “Pretty Big” is based on the true life story and the origin of Armstrong’s dance company, which is inclusive of bodies of all shapes, sizes and colors. Tina Mabry has signed on to direct the project, co-writing the screenplay with Dan Steele.
The movie follows Armstrong, a young, plus-sized woman who takes matters into her own hands after being rejected from other dance companies, despite her obvious talent. After starting her own company, she sets out to win a prestigious competition and prove to the dance community that anyone can dance at an elite level.
Warner Bros. nabbed the competitive package, bid on by multiple studios, for HBO Max. Get Lifted Film Co.
Set at Warner Bros. for HBO Max, “Pretty Big” is based on the true life story and the origin of Armstrong’s dance company, which is inclusive of bodies of all shapes, sizes and colors. Tina Mabry has signed on to direct the project, co-writing the screenplay with Dan Steele.
The movie follows Armstrong, a young, plus-sized woman who takes matters into her own hands after being rejected from other dance companies, despite her obvious talent. After starting her own company, she sets out to win a prestigious competition and prove to the dance community that anyone can dance at an elite level.
Warner Bros. nabbed the competitive package, bid on by multiple studios, for HBO Max. Get Lifted Film Co.
- 1/19/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Mila Kunis’ Orchard Farm Productions has sold its comedy The Masters of Mini-Golf to Warner Bros. for HBO Max, the company announced today.
Ashton Kutcher will star in the film, which is currently in development. It centers on a golf hustler (Kutcher) and his older brother who decide to take their schemes from the PGA to the Masters of Mini Golf. They quickly realize, thereafter, that while the holes might be smaller, the competitors and the challenges are much, much bigger.
Ava Tramer and Ari Berkowitz are set to script the feature, which Kunis will produce with Kristina Sorensen, with Orchard Farm partners Lisa Sterbakov and Cami Curtis exec producing.
Tramer and Berkowitz are a writing duo also currently at work on a holiday movie for Paramount Players. The pair have also worked on features for Warner Bros. Animation and TriStar, while staffing and developing independently in TV,...
Ashton Kutcher will star in the film, which is currently in development. It centers on a golf hustler (Kutcher) and his older brother who decide to take their schemes from the PGA to the Masters of Mini Golf. They quickly realize, thereafter, that while the holes might be smaller, the competitors and the challenges are much, much bigger.
Ava Tramer and Ari Berkowitz are set to script the feature, which Kunis will produce with Kristina Sorensen, with Orchard Farm partners Lisa Sterbakov and Cami Curtis exec producing.
Tramer and Berkowitz are a writing duo also currently at work on a holiday movie for Paramount Players. The pair have also worked on features for Warner Bros. Animation and TriStar, while staffing and developing independently in TV,...
- 10/7/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Gustin Nash, the screenwriter of Amazon Studios’ in-the-works movie Kate Warne, which has Emily Blunt attached to star in the story of the first female Pinkerton Detective, has signed with WME. The agency deal for the scribe comes after Deadline scooped earlier this month that Amazon acquired Nash’s pitch at the end of a six-studio bidding war.
Blunt is also set to produce Kate Warne alongside Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and Kristina Sorensen. Nash is executive producer on the project, an action adventure take on Warne, whose sleuthing skills in a male-dominated field paved the way for women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Nash’s writing credits include 2007’s Charlie Bartlett for MGM which starred Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr and Kat Dennings, and 2009’s Youth In Revolt directed by Miguel Arteta and starring Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi and Rooney Mara.
Blunt is also set to produce Kate Warne alongside Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and Kristina Sorensen. Nash is executive producer on the project, an action adventure take on Warne, whose sleuthing skills in a male-dominated field paved the way for women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Nash’s writing credits include 2007’s Charlie Bartlett for MGM which starred Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr and Kat Dennings, and 2009’s Youth In Revolt directed by Miguel Arteta and starring Michael Cera, Zach Galifianakis, Steve Buscemi and Rooney Mara.
- 8/26/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Following a highly competitive situation, Amazon Studios, Seven Bucks Productions, Ledbury Productions and Kristina Sorensen Productions are developing action-adventure film “Kate Warne,” with Emily Blunt starring and producing, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
Gustin Nash will write the script.
“Kate Warne” is described as an action adventure based on the trailblazing true-life story of Kate Warne, the first woman to become a detective at the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency, where her unmatched skills paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Producers include Hiram Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia via Seven Bucks Productions in addition to Emily Blunt via Ledbury Productions. Kristina Sorensen will also produce via her Kristina Sorensen Productions banner. Gustin Nash will executive produce. Kimberly Bialek is overseeing for Seven Bucks Productions.
The “Kate Warne” project comes on the heels of the recent...
Gustin Nash will write the script.
“Kate Warne” is described as an action adventure based on the trailblazing true-life story of Kate Warne, the first woman to become a detective at the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency, where her unmatched skills paved the way for future women in law enforcement and forever changed how detective work was done.
Producers include Hiram Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia via Seven Bucks Productions in addition to Emily Blunt via Ledbury Productions. Kristina Sorensen will also produce via her Kristina Sorensen Productions banner. Gustin Nash will executive produce. Kimberly Bialek is overseeing for Seven Bucks Productions.
The “Kate Warne” project comes on the heels of the recent...
- 8/12/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: The writing trio known as Murder Ink, which consists of Brandon Broussard, Hudson Obayuwana and Jana Savage, has inked with APA.
Currently, Murder Ink’s feature film, Praise This, is in pre-production at Universal Studios, with Will Packer producing. On the film side, Broussard, Obayuwana and Savage are also developing an untitled comedic thriller produced by MacRo for New Line. Additionally, they are penning Riding for Compton for Everlast Pictures. Everlast’s Adonis Tountas, Michael Spanos II, and Bobby Hoppey will produce the latter title alongside Kristina Sorensen.
On the TV side, the writers recently closed a deal for the comedy pilot, Committed, which is to be produced by 40 Years a Prisoner‘s Confluential Films.
Broussard, Obayuwana and Savage previously wrote and executive produced Netflix’s romantic comedy feature, #RealityHigh. First working together on YouTube sketch show Purple Stuff TV, the trio earned their name while rewriting 2016 romantic comedy,...
Currently, Murder Ink’s feature film, Praise This, is in pre-production at Universal Studios, with Will Packer producing. On the film side, Broussard, Obayuwana and Savage are also developing an untitled comedic thriller produced by MacRo for New Line. Additionally, they are penning Riding for Compton for Everlast Pictures. Everlast’s Adonis Tountas, Michael Spanos II, and Bobby Hoppey will produce the latter title alongside Kristina Sorensen.
On the TV side, the writers recently closed a deal for the comedy pilot, Committed, which is to be produced by 40 Years a Prisoner‘s Confluential Films.
Broussard, Obayuwana and Savage previously wrote and executive produced Netflix’s romantic comedy feature, #RealityHigh. First working together on YouTube sketch show Purple Stuff TV, the trio earned their name while rewriting 2016 romantic comedy,...
- 4/21/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: NBC has put in development Epidemic, a drama from David Titcher, creator of The Librarian franchise, Great Big Story, No Trace Camping (Room) and Universal TV.
Written by Titcher, Epidemic revolves around Nicole Summers and Daniel Golden, two superstar doctors within a special investigative division of the Cdc who recruit the nation’s best medical students and travel the world solving diseases nobody can figure out.
Inspired by a four-minute short, Epidemic is the first scripted project sold into development for Great Big Story.
Titcher executive produces with Courtney Coupe and Kristina Sorensen for Great Big Story along with No Trace Camping’s Jeff Arkuss, Jesse Shapira and David Gross. No Trace Camping’s Josh Phillips is a producer. Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, is the studio.
Titcher is best known as creator The Librarian franchise, a series of adventure-fantasy movies starring Noah Wyle which aired on TNT.
Written by Titcher, Epidemic revolves around Nicole Summers and Daniel Golden, two superstar doctors within a special investigative division of the Cdc who recruit the nation’s best medical students and travel the world solving diseases nobody can figure out.
Inspired by a four-minute short, Epidemic is the first scripted project sold into development for Great Big Story.
Titcher executive produces with Courtney Coupe and Kristina Sorensen for Great Big Story along with No Trace Camping’s Jeff Arkuss, Jesse Shapira and David Gross. No Trace Camping’s Josh Phillips is a producer. Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, is the studio.
Titcher is best known as creator The Librarian franchise, a series of adventure-fantasy movies starring Noah Wyle which aired on TNT.
- 11/22/2019
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker and TV producer-director Carol Polakoff is expanding her Viewfinder banner into television with two hourlong series projects at FX, including a cyber crime drama from writer Ed Burns (The Wire). She’s also officially rebranding her Carol Polakoff Productions company to Viewfinder Pictures and bringing on former Vie Entertainment exec Kristina Sorensen (Freeheld) as VP Production & Development. In addition to the untitled cyber crime dramas, with cyber crime/counter-terrorism expert Marc Goodman executive producing and Burns writing, Polakoff has The Iron King, an adaptation of a French book series. Sorensen will help oversee these and other projects for Viewfinder, along with Daniela Albin, who has been developing projects for Carol Polakoff Prods since its inception in 2009. Polokoff’s feature projects include an English remake of Danish Oscar contender Terribly Happy; an original screenplay set in modern Tehran; Secret Sky, an adaptation of On Beauty by Zadie Smith; and an...
- 5/19/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood will play sisters in the film Into the Forest, an adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel of the same name. Patricia Rozema will direct the pic, which follows two sisters as they struggle to survive after the collapse of society in a not-too-distant future. Page is also producing, along with Kelly Bush Novak and Sriram Das. Haroon (Boon) Saleem will executive produce, with Kristina Sorensen as associate producer. Photos: 33 Power Canadians in Hollywood Page, who recently wrapped shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past, was recently attached to Fox’s Queen and Country. She's repped
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- 10/21/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page and Emmy/Golden Globe nominee Evan Rachel Wood are set to star in the indie movie “Into the Forest,” which Patricia Rozema (“Grey Gardens”) will direct and adapt from Jean Hegland’s novel of the same name. Page and Wood will play sisters who struggle to survive after the collapse of society in the not-too-distant future. Also Read: Ellen Page to Make Directorial Debut with Anna Faris in the Lead Page will produce with Kelly Bush Novak and Sriram Das. Haroon ‘Boon’ Saleem will executive produce, while Kristina Sorensen will serve as as associate producer. Page recently wrapped “X-Men: Days of.
- 10/21/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Ellen Page ( The East , Juno , X-Men ) is set to produce and star opposite Evan Rachel Wood ( Mildred Pierce , Thirteen ) in the film adaptation of Jean Hegland's novel of the same name, Into the Forest . Patricia Rozema ( Grey Gardens , Mansfield Park ) will direct the feature film from her adapted screenplay. Into the Forest recounts the story of two sisters (Page and Wood) struggling to survive after the collapse of society in the not too distant future. In addition to Ellen Page, Kelly Bush Novak and Sriram Das are set to produce. Haroon (Boon) Saleem will serve as executive producer and Kristina Sorensen as associate producer.
- 10/21/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Peter Sollett ("Raising Victor Vargas," "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist") is set to direct the Ellen Page-led feature adaptation of the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary short "Freeheld" at Incognito Pictures says The Film Stage.
Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") wrote the script in which Page will play Stacie Andree, a woman denied the pension benefits of her terminally ill longtime partner and New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester.
Hester’s conservative detective partner Dane Wells stepped up to become the leader in the fight for Laurel’s rights to assign her benefits to Andree.
Jack Selby, Scott Stone, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, Kelly Bush, Kristina Sorensen, James Stern and Cynthia Wade will produce.
Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") wrote the script in which Page will play Stacie Andree, a woman denied the pension benefits of her terminally ill longtime partner and New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester.
Hester’s conservative detective partner Dane Wells stepped up to become the leader in the fight for Laurel’s rights to assign her benefits to Andree.
Jack Selby, Scott Stone, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, Kelly Bush, Kristina Sorensen, James Stern and Cynthia Wade will produce.
- 9/7/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Ellen Page is attached to star in a feature film adaptation of the 2007 Oscar-winning documentary short "Freeheld" at Incognito Pictures says Deadline.
Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") wrote the script in which Page will play Stacie Andree, a woman denied the pension benefits of her terminally ill longtime partner and New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester.
Hester’s conservative detective partner Dane Wells stepped up to become the leader in the fight for Laurel’s rights to assign her benefits to Andree.
Jack Selby, Scott Stone, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, Kelly Bush, Kristina Sorensen, James Stern and Cynthia Wade will produce.
Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") wrote the script in which Page will play Stacie Andree, a woman denied the pension benefits of her terminally ill longtime partner and New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester.
Hester’s conservative detective partner Dane Wells stepped up to become the leader in the fight for Laurel’s rights to assign her benefits to Andree.
Jack Selby, Scott Stone, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, Kelly Bush, Kristina Sorensen, James Stern and Cynthia Wade will produce.
- 8/23/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Incognito Pictures, a new production company led by producer/financier Jack Selby and veteran film producer Scott Stone, has stepped up to produce and finance a feature adaptation of Freeheld, the Oscar-winning documentary short. Ellen Page is attached to star and Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) wrote the script. Double Feature Films partners Stacey Sher and Michael Shamberg are also producing with Kelly Bush and Kristina Sorensen of Vie Entertainment, James Stern of Endgame Entertainment, and Cynthia Wade. Wade directed the 2007 documentary, and Endgame developed the feature script. Page will play Stacie Andree, who was denied the pension benefits of her longtime partner and New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester, when the latter became terminally ill. While Hester’s detective partner Dane Wells was conservative and surprised to learn of Hester’s orientation, Wells stepped up to become the leader in the fight for Laurel’s rights to assign her benefits to Andree.
- 8/22/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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